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Methodist ministers launch anti-Bush library petition
Dallas Morning News ^ | 1/18/2007 | HOLLY K. HACKER

Posted on 01/18/2007 12:27:36 PM PST by LA Woman3

A group of Methodist ministers has begun a national petition drive asking Southern Methodist University to remove itself from negotiations to get the George W. Bush presidential library.

"As United Methodists, we believe that the linking of his presidency with a university bearing the Methodist name is utterly inappropriate," reads the petition, which is posted online at ProtectSMU.org.

"Because SMU is owned by the United Methodist Church, the imposition of a George W. Bush library, museum and think tank at SMU will irreparably connect the denomination with this presidency,” said Rev. Andrew J. Weaver, a petition organizer in Brooklyn, N.Y. and 1978 graduate of SMU’s Perkins School of Theology. “Members of the UMC, therefore, should be able to express their opinion on this matter before a final decision is reached.”

Campus officials said that the petition organizers have a right to express their opinions, but they don’t believe the sentiment is widespread.

“It’s not the least bit surprising there would be views from some segment of the movement, as large as it is, that would not want to see the library, museum and institute come to SMU,” said Brad Cheves, a university vice president. “However, we continue to believe that a vast majority of the Methodist and the university community support SMU’s efforts.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bds; bush; communism; fauxchristians; library; methodist; methodists; ncc; presidentiallibrary; religiousleft; smu
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1 posted on 01/18/2007 12:27:40 PM PST by LA Woman3
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To: LA Woman3

What a bunch of self important pukeheads.


2 posted on 01/18/2007 12:29:28 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: LA Woman3

Methodists turning Stalinist too, it looks like.


3 posted on 01/18/2007 12:29:37 PM PST by unkus
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To: LA Woman3

The Fidel Castro Memorial Library is more apropos for these "ministers."


4 posted on 01/18/2007 12:31:50 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: LA Woman3

I'm sure the University of Central Florida will take it. Where do we apply?


5 posted on 01/18/2007 12:32:55 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: LA Woman3

Well, the Methodists do seem to be the most liberal church. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.


6 posted on 01/18/2007 12:33:32 PM PST by USMCWife6869
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To: LA Woman3

SMU is tainted by the NCAA football "death penalty" if I recall. They were caught recruiting religiously.


7 posted on 01/18/2007 12:34:28 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: LA Woman3

Lots of commies in the upper reaches of the Methodist church. Most methodists are unaware of the far-left leanings of their top brass.


8 posted on 01/18/2007 12:34:45 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: LA Woman3
The three Methodist churches here in Huntsville are very left wing.
9 posted on 01/18/2007 12:35:06 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: Peach
The Alumni Association needs to hear from Alumni. I have contacted my Alumni Association and freaked them out.
10 posted on 01/18/2007 12:35:11 PM PST by unkus
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To: LA Woman3

The Methodist Church....

...where politicians and liberals go to pretend to be Christians.


11 posted on 01/18/2007 12:35:43 PM PST by Dreagon
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To: unkus

Good for you! They need to hear from their members, imo. Their conduct in this matter is shameful.


12 posted on 01/18/2007 12:36:05 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: unkus

If you ever get a chance, take a look at the Methodistas Book of Resolutions for 2004.. It's a little look into the cream that rose to the top of that church.
It reads like the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital with a smattering of scripture to cover up their hatred of Bush and anything Republican. They should have ended the thing with "workers of the world, UNITE!!"


13 posted on 01/18/2007 12:37:19 PM PST by newnhdad
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To: LA Woman3

Being illiterate, what use would they have of a presidential library, or even of a common one?


14 posted on 01/18/2007 12:37:52 PM PST by GSlob
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To: LA Woman3

Was SMU in the lead? Were they even a serious contender?


15 posted on 01/18/2007 12:38:05 PM PST by Ben Mugged (Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.)
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To: unkus
Methodists turning Stalinist too, it looks like.

The Methodists fell off the bandwagon a long time ago.

16 posted on 01/18/2007 12:38:18 PM PST by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: ozzymandus

And my Mom asks why I don't go to church anymore. Maybe it was our dike minister that put me over the edge, but it was really their stance on gun control.


17 posted on 01/18/2007 12:38:58 PM PST by CollegeRepublican
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Bush responds to complaints about SMU library plans
18 posted on 01/18/2007 12:41:01 PM PST by LA Woman3
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To: LA Woman3

Sounds about right for them. In similar fashion, the new dean of students at the Methodist School of Theology at Emory University is a woman who brings the great expertise to the job of having a Phd (in political science) and she and her parents have been life-long "civil rights" activists; just what "Christian" theology students need, right?? She just left her job as the head of the national United Methodist Office titled the Women's Division, two years ahead of the four-year+ period they thought she had committed to. Maybe the fact that the United Methodist Women (national organiztion of local church women which supplies the bulk of the $$$ backing the Women's Division) saw its membership go to zero in over 750 United Methodist churches in the last two years had something to do with it. Is the United Methodist Church Women's Division's loss Emory's gain??? I wonder what the actual theology professors at Emory think.


19 posted on 01/18/2007 12:41:16 PM PST by Wuli
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To: LA Woman3

These are probably the same Methodists who think Fidel Castro is a good guy.


20 posted on 01/18/2007 12:43:37 PM PST by Retired Chemist
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